New border scandals raise heat on Home Office

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Border officials at Dover reportedly did not cross-check passports against databases for four yearsGareth Fuller/PA

Lucinda Beaman

Last updated at 3:16AM, November 13 2011

Border staff at Britain’s biggest port allowed coach passengers into the UK
without proper security checks for four years, it has been reported, dealing
a fresh blow to the Home Office amid the growing immigration scandal.

The revelations came as Scotland Yard arrested a man claiming to be able to
manipulate asylum and immigration applications with the assistance of a
corrupt Home Office employee.

Passengers on coaches entering through the busy port of Dover were allowed
through with only the most cursory of checks from 2007 until ten days ago, a
Sunday newspaper reported.